Leix

• County Laois (pronounced Leash), also spelt Laoighis or Leix (Irish: Contae Laoise), is a county in the midlands of Ireland. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leix

• Leix and Offaly: the first plantation in Ireland, like Drogheda, also the site of a massacre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_of_Mullaghmast
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantations_of_Ireland#Laois_and_Offaly